Also I would use forceful wrist motions to try to fling out any remaining liquid -- if it went in bottom first, then fling it so that the liquid exits from the bottom with as much centrifugal force as possible.

Let it set for at least 48 hours in a warm dry place sans battery.

As a last resort, an alcohol bath works very well (preferably 95% ethanol). Luckily it was tea, not Coke. Hopefully the tea wasn't sweetened, or worse, lemoned, very much...

The phone that took a dive was my new replacement from Sprint, which would have been a heavy loss, since the back-up phone (ala eBay) has some quirks, though it is functional.

The tea was unsweetened, pretty hot still and the phone was immediately shaken (I think that may have flared the nasty wrist tendonitis I have been battling the last few weeks, come to think of it). It was a VERY hot day (over 100, I believe) so I set it outside on the deck on top of a white table. It was fine at sundown with a different battery. I let the battery dry for several days.